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COMBINED STUD AND SGARI PIN SEGURER.

Patented Sept. 8 1896.

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- is a nut but the shank may be otherwise UNIT D STATES WILLIAM H. OAPEL, on NEW YORK, N. Y.

COM B|NAT| ON STUD AN D SCARF-PIN SECURER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 567,377, dated September 8, 1896. Application filed November 27, 1895. Serial No. 570,251. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, XVILLIAM H. CAPEL, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented a certain new and useful Combined Stud and Scarf- Pin Securer, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to securing devices intended to retain shirt-studs and scarf-pins in place in the shirt or scarf.

The object of the invention is to so form or construct such device that it may serve either of the above purposes equally well, be of such form as not to be in the way when used in either capacity, and also serve the purpose of an advertising medium for jewelers.

7With this object in view, the invention consists in the construction and formation of parts hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification, Figure 1 represents my securing device in side and edge view applied to a scarf-pin. Fig. 2 indicates the manner of its application to a shirt-stud. Fig. 3 represents said device in side view, on an enlarged scale, and a cross-section through a portion thereof. Fig. 4 represents a modification of a part thereof.

The securing device preferably consists of a disk portion, as A, provided with a shank B and a keeper 0. The shank is preferably screw-threaded, as indicated, and the keeper formed and the keeper consist of ya plain band retained in adjustment upon the shank by any suitable form of key or friction-springsuch, for example, as illustrated in Fig. 4, where the bent spring G is shown as located in the keeper 0 and resting in a notched groove in the shank B. The disk is divided through the middle, and said division extends through the shank until near the end thereof, where sufficient metal is left to keep the two halves together. This division, however, may be made complete, if desired, as in Fig. 4. The shank is axially bored, as at D, which bore extends in the form of a groove along the adjacent edges of the disk. The bore and its terminal grooves gradually taper or run out as they approach the outer ends of the condition is indicated in Fig. 3.

halves of the disk, as indicated by dotted lines E. The halves of the shank are slightly bent or curved outwardly, so that the space formed by the walls of the bore shall be of greater, or at least of as great, area in crosssection throughout the divided portion of the shank as at the integral end thereof when in condition for application to a scarf-pin, which The boreat the integral end being large enough to admit the insertion of any pin and it being of slightly less cross-area at that point than elsewhere, the device is easily and readily applied to a pin; then by turning up the nut the halves of the shankand disk approach each other, and because of the tapering or running out of the grooves or halves of the bore even the smallest pins may be securely clamped.

- The construction shown in Fig. 4. provides for making the securing device of non-resilient material, such as White metal, which may be readily plated. The divisions of the shank being of equal thickness throughout their length and curved away from one another, they will rock one upon the other as the keeper is moved back and forth, and as the grooves constituting the axial bore taper toward the disk, diminishing in proportion to the curvature of the divisions, the keeper in advancing toward the disk Will bring the surfaces of the grooves closer together at and near the disk, thereby clamping the inserted pin.

The securing device may consist simply of a uniform screw-threaded rod diametrically divided,such as would result by the omission of the disk from the shank formed as illustrated in Fig. 4, wherein each division is curved away from the other and both provided along their meeting edges with tapering grooves, as indicated in the construction shown in Fig. 3. I prefer, however, to retain the disk,since, among other things, it extends 5 the clamping surface and stiffens that portion of the securing device.

The device may also be applied to a brooch by placing it on the pin thereof between its emergence from the cloth and the hook, so that should the pin become unhooked the brooch cannot get away.

In the edges of the disk, as at F, are formed transverse notches for the attachment of the securing device to the screw of a shirt-stud, as indicated in Fig. 2, the screw having first been passed through the shirt-front or through the material of a tie.

The device may be made to firmly clamp the wire of the stud, though that is not absolutely essential to holding the stud in place, since the keeper may be turned sufficiently to bring the halves of the disk nearly together and the screw of the stud turned through the hole formed by notches F. Even when thus loosely placed upon the wire, the stud cannot work itself free of it, though if it were not for the presence of said securing device the stud, as is of common occurrence, could easily work out of the shirt. A plain, undivided disk with a simple perforation may be thus effectually used.

The disk portion of the device serves mainly for holding the stud in place, though it cooperates with the shank in securing a scarf-pin against displacement.

If only for the purpose above described the disk might be of considerable less area,

but its extent of surface not only makes a better holding device and gives the necessary strength to the parts upon which the greatest clamping strain is brought to bear, while still keeping said parts sufiiciently thin to well adapt it for its .use on a stud at the back of the shirt-bosom, but said extent of surface aifords an opportunity for a jeweler to use the device as an advertising medium, since upon one or both sides thereof he may stamp his name specialty, and place of business, or in microscopic type he might stamp thereon some legend, verse, or prayer, or he might place upon it some other attraction such as would cause purchasers to seek for them, or such as would warrant him in giving them away or presenting them to each purchaser of a pin or stud.

\Vhat I claim as my invention is- 1. A securing device for the purpose specified, consisting of a divided disk provided with a divided shank, and having a tapered groove extending along the meeting edge of each division, each of said divisions of the shank being of the same thickness throughout their length and curved away from one another in proportion to the diminution of the grooves, and a keeper movable along said shank to bring the surfaces of said diminishing grooves closer together at and near the disk, as and for the purpose set forth.

2. A securing device consisting of a divided, perforated disk having a divided axiallybored shank, and an adjustable keeper for clamping the divisions of said device upon a stud-spiral or upon a scarf-pin, substantially as set forth.

3. An advertising medium consisting of a divided disk bearing the advertisement and perforated for the reception of a stud-spiral, and having a screw-threaded, divided, axially-bored shank, and .a nut running onsaid shank, as and for the purpose specified.

4. In a securing device, the combination of a screw-threaded rod diametrically divided, each division curved away from the other and both provided with tapering grooves along their meeting edges, and a keeper movable along said divisions and binding them together, substantially as set forth.

Signed at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, this 25th day November, A. D. 1895.

VILLIAM H. CAPEL.

Witnesses:

CHAS. A. BRODEK, DELBERT H. DECKER. 

